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Melissa Kline Struhl

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I am Melissa Kline Struhl and this is my CV.

Education

PhD, Brain & Cognitive Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2015 - 2009

  • Committee: Laura Schulz; Ted Gibson; Jesse Snedeker; Josh Tenenbaum
  • Thesis title: Who did what to whom: Developmental perspectives on the meaning and communication of transitive events

Sc.B. in Cognitive Science

Brown University

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2008 - 2004

  • Advisor: Katherine Demuth
  • Thesis title: Syntactic generalization with novel intransitive verbs: Who is pilking?

Employment

Research Scientist (Supervisor: Tim Errington)

Center for Open Science

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2021 - 2019

Postdoctoral Associate (PI: Joshua Tenenbaum)

MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences

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2019 - 2018

Senior Teaching Fellow (Supervisor: Jesse Snedeker)

Harvard Extension School, Department of Psychology

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2018 - 2018

Postdoctoral Associate (PI: Evelina Fedorenko)

MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences

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2017 - 2016

Postdoctoral Fellow (PI: Jesse Snedeker)

Harvard University, Department of Psychology

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2016 - 2015

Executive Director

Lookit, MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences

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Current - 2021

Published Articles

Demuth, K., & Kline, M. (2006). The distribution of passives in spoken Sesotho. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 24(3), 377–388. doi:10.2989/16073610609486426

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2006

Frank, M. C., Bergelson, E., Bergmann, C., Cristia, A., Floccia, C., Gervain, J., … Yurovsky, D. (2017). A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building. Infancy, 22(4), 421–435. doi:10.1111/infa.12182

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2017

Kline, M., & Demuth, K. (2010). Factors Facilitating Implicit Learning: The Case of the Sesotho Passive. Language Acquisition, 17(4), 220–234. doi:10.1080/10489223.2010.509268

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2010

Kline, M., & Demuth, K. (2010). Factors Facilitating Implicit Learning: The Case of the Sesotho Passive. Language Acquisition, 17(4), 220–234. doi:10.1080/10489223.2010.509268

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2010

Kline, M., Schulz, L., & Gibson, E. (2017). Partial Truths: Adults Choose to Mention Agents and Patients in Proportion to Informativity, Even If It Doesn’t Fully Disambiguate the Message. Open Mind, 2(1), 1–13. doi:10.1162/opmi_a_00013

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2017

Kline, M., Snedeker, J., & Schulz, L. (2016). Linking Language and Events: Spatiotemporal Cues Drive Children’s Expectations About the Meanings of Novel Transitive Verbs. Language Learning and Development, 13(1), 1–23. doi:10.1080/15475441.2016.1171771

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2016

Byers-Heinlein, K., Bergmann, C., Davies, C., Frank, M. C., Hamlin, J. K., Kline, M., … Soderstrom, M. (2020). Building a collaborative psychological science: Lessons learned from ManyBabies 1. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne, 61(4), 349–363. doi:10.1037/cap0000216

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2020

Other Manuscripts

LanA (Language Atlas): A probabilistic atlas for the language network based on fMRI

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  • Affourtit, J…Kline Struhl, M.,…Fedorenko, E. (Under Review). LanA (Language Atlas): A probabilistic atlas for the language network based on fMRI.

Understanding jokes relies on the Theory of Mind system

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  • Kline Struhl., M., Galleé, J., Balewski, Z., & Fedorenko, E. (Under Review). Understanding jokes relies on the Theory of Mind system.

Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE)

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  • Alipourfard, N., Arendt, B., … Kline Struhl, M., … Wu, J. (Preprint). Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE).

Replicability, Robustness, and Reproducibility in Psychological Science

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  • Nosek, B. A., Hardwicke, T. E., Moshontz, H., Allard, A., Corker, K. S., Dreber, A., Fidler, F. Hilgard, J., Kline Struhl, M., Nuijten, M., Roher, J., Romero, F., Scheel, A., Scherer, L., Schönbrodt, F. & Vazire, S. (In Press). Replicability, Robustness, and Reproducibility in Psychological Science. Annual Review of Psychology.

Word order patterns in gesture are sensitive to modality-specific production constraints

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  • Kline, M., Salinas, M., Lim, E., Fedorenko, E., & Gibson, E. Word order patterns in gesture are sensitive to modality-specific production constraints

Young children choose informative referring expressions to describe the agents and patients of transitive events

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  • Kline, M., Gibson, E. & Schulz, L. Young children choose informative referring expressions to describe the agents and patients of transitive events

ManyBabies 1: Secondary analysis of ‘lab factors’ and fuss-out rates

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2018

  • Kline, M. & members of the ManyBabies Consortium (2018) ManyBabies 1: Secondary analysis of ‘lab factors’ and fuss-out rates

MannerPathPriming - Testing generalization of event semantics across domains

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2016

  • Kline, M., Geojo, A., de Rechteren van Hemert, A., & Snedeker, J. (2016) MannerPathPriming - Testing generalization of event semantics across domains

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2016

  • Wittenberg, E., Kline, M. & Hartshorne, J. (2016) Learning to talk about events: Grounding language acquisition in intuitive theories and event cognition. Proceedings of the Thirty- Eighth Annual Conference3 of the Cognitive Science Society

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2015

  • Kline, M., Snedeker, J. (2015). 2-year-olds use syntax to infer actor intentions in a rational- action paradigm. Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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2013

  • Kline, M., Muentener, P. & Schulz, L.E. (2013). Transitive and periphrastic sentences affect memory for simple causal scenes. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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2011

  • Kline, M., Snedeker, J., & Schulz, L.E. (2011). Children’s comprehension and production of transitive sentences is sensitive to the causal structure of events. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Conference Posters & Presentations

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2018

  • Kline, M. (2018). ManyBabies - Using larg(er) experimental datasets for methodological and theoretical questions. Society for Research on Child Development, Special Meeting on Secondary Data in Developmental Science. Phoenix, AZ.Kline. M. and the ManyBabies Consortium. (2018). Analysis of “fussout effects” in the ManyBabies1 dataset. 21st Biennial Congress of the International Congress of Infant Studies, Philadelphia, PA.

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2018

  • Kline, M. (2018). Machine-readable, human-friendly data standardization for psychological science. Lightening talk & Hackathon. Third meeting of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Sciences, Grand Rapids, MI.

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2018

  • Kline, M. & Snedeker, J. (2018). How are events represented for language? Eigth annual meeting of the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

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2017

  • Kline, M. & Snedeker, J. (2017) Do children appreciate parallels in means/ends event structure across semantic fields? 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Austin, TX.

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2017

  • Kline, M. (2017). We need an open database for psychological stimuli (all of them) - Lightening talk & Hackathon. Second meeting of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Sciences, Charlottesville, VA.

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2017

  • Kline, M. (2017). Language, Space & Time. Workshop on Cognitive Universals, CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, 2017

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2016

  • Kline, M. (2016) Which semantic primitives and why those ones? Workshop talk, Learning to Talk About Events, 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA.

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2015

  • Kline, M., Snedeker, J. (2015). 2-year-olds use syntax to infer actor intentions in a rational-action paradigm. 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, CA

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2013

  • Kline, M., Muentener, P. & Schulz, L.E. (2013). Transitive and periphrastic sentences affect memory for simple causal scenes. 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany.

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2013

  • Kline, M., Snedeker, J. & Schulz, L.E. (2013) Representations of causality in verb learning. 2013 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Seattle, WA.

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2011

  • Kline, M., Snedeker, J., & Schulz, L.E. (2011). Preschoolers prefer to map novel transitive verbs to events with spatiotemporal features that mark causation. 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

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2011

  • Kline, M., Snedeker, J., & Schulz, L.E. (2011). Children’s comprehension and production of transitive sentences is sensitive to the causal structure of events. 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA.

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2008

  • Kline, M. & Demuth, K. (2008). Syntactic generalization with novel intransitive verbs: Who is pilking? 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

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2008

  • Kline, M. & Demuth, K. (2008). Frequency and structural priming in the input: Implications for learning the passive. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA) 3, Storrs, CT.

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2006

  • Kline, M. & Demuth, K. (2006). Learning passives from the input: Evidence from Sesotho. 2nd Bantu Acquisition Workshop, Northampton, MA.

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2015

  • Mahowald, K., Kline, M., Fedorenko, E. & Gibson, T. (2015). Informativity and efficient compression of sentences. Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, CUNY 2015. Los Angeles, CA

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2014

  • Kline, M., Snedeker, J. (2014) Daxing my toy or Daxing TO my toy? Two-year-olds use syntax to override rational imitation effects. 39th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

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2011

  • Friel, D., Kline, M., Seed, A., & Schulz, L. (2011). It’s okay to judge a block by its color: Toddlers’ use of symbolic and intrinsic cues to objects’ causal powers. Seventh Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Awards

Harvard University Foundations of Human Behavior Grant ($40,000)

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2015

NSF SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (Project title: Causal Representations in Children’s Transitive Sentences; $12,000)

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2014 - 2012

NSF Graduate Student Fellowship

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2014 - 2011

Norman B. Leventhal Fellowship

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2011 - 2010

Singleton Graduate Fellowship

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2010 - 2009

Teaching

Human Development (Graduate/Undergraduate level, Senior Teaching Fellow)

Harvard Extension School

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2018

Science of Living Systems 20/Introduction to Psychological Science(Teaching Fellow)

Harvard University

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2013

Project consultant for ‘Special Topics’ independent research students

MIT

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2014 - 2013

Graduate Student Teaching Certificate Program

MIT

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2012 - 2011

Infant & Early Childhood Cognition, Fall 2011 (Teaching Assistant)

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2011

Laboratory in Higher-Level Cognition, Spring 2011 (Teaching Assistant)

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2011

Models of Computation, Brown University (Teaching Assistant)

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2006

After-school science educator (AmeriCorps, Providence Children’s Museum)

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2009 - 2008

Supervisor for 4 masters’ students, 10 full time and 34 part time/semester undergraduate research assistants, including one senior thesis supervision.

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Service

Executive Committee, Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science

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2021 - 2018

Governing Board, ManyBabies

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Organizing committee, CUNY Sentence Processing Conference

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2017

Co-Chair, Events in Language & Cognition Workshop

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2016

CogLunch coordinator

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2011 - 2010

Reviewer for Autism Research, Collabra: Psychology, Cognitive Science, Developmental Science, Infant Behavior & Development, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Language Cognition & Neuroscience, Language Learning and Development, Semantics and Pragmatics (Journals); Society for Research in Child Development, Cognitive Science, CUNY Sentence Processing Conference (Conferences)

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Invited participant, 9.S914 Tools for Robust Science

MIT

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2021

Co-Organizer, Learning to Talk About Events Workshop

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2016